News

• CIP Best Practice Workshop - Sep 03, 2010
• Water Quality at Sawpit Creek - Jun 29, 2010
• Follow us on Twitter - Jun 04, 2010
• Green Cones - The new innovation in dealing with household food waste - Sep 03, 2007
• Trade Waste Training Course - Jul 30, 2008
• GO SOLO GO!! GO SOLO GO!!! - Aug 09, 2007
• Chemical Clean up enhances performance of Commonwealth Games Triathletes - Jun 06, 2006
• Hatlar presents Trade Waste Education paper - Jun 06, 2006
• Innovation from cleaner production collaboration - Dec 23, 2005

CIP Best Practice Workshop

The Clean In Place Best Practice Guidelines have recently been completed.

We would like to invite you to an information session to learn more about the Guidelines and to provide feedback on how they could be refined to better suit your needs.

Click here to download the Registration Form

Water Quality at Sawpit Creek

Since the late 19th century there has been a history of mining on the Mt Carrington mineral field near the village of Drake. These were generally small open cuts and underground mines predominantly extracting oxide ores containing gold, silver and copper.  Several of the underground mines intersected groundwater, and drainage of mine water out of the mines resulted in acid mine drainage (AMD) and pollution of several of the local drainage systems with base metals. More recent mining in the late 1980's left a legacy of poor rehabilitation and management of waste rock dumps, particularly acid generating waste rock. This has created several ongoing environmental issues. Of most concern with respect to water quality has been acid mine drainage (AMD) and associated base metal contamination overtopping collection dams and the tailings dam. 

White Rock Minerals Ltd and mineral exploration company separated from Rex Minerals Ltd in June this year. It now holds the Mt Carrington group of Mining Leases and has as part of its exploration program, contracted environmental and wastewater specialist, the Hatlar Group to review the current AMD situation to reduce contamination and improve water quality. A site water balance shows that overflow of the current tailings dam will continue to occur in high rainfall events. To prevent these overflow events there needs to be at least 330 ML of spare capacity available in the dam at the beginning of the wet season. To achieve this requires proactive water management which includes better site drainage, rehabilitation and the installation of a water treatment plant that meets regulatory water quality criteria for discharge. This will result in improved water quality in Sawpit Creek.

White Rock and Hatlar are now undertaking works to improve water quality to better manage AMD.  These works include improving drainage, rehabilitation and the installation of a water treatment plant. 

The Mt Carrington water treatment plant is being commissioned by the Hatlar in July this year. It will pump wastewater from the tailings dam through a series of filters to remove the solid particles, before passing through a reverse osmosis system which separate the salts and soluble metals into a concentrated stream that is placed back into the tailings dam.

This water treatment plant will enable clean water (Australian drinking water standard) to be discharged from the tailings dam effectively reducing its water level to minimise the likelihood future overflows during the wet season.  Depending on rainfall, it is expected to take 9-11 months of operation to lower the water level in the tailing dam by the desired amount.

The inflow of treated water is expected to have further benefit on the water quality in Sawpit Creek by aiding in the dilution of the AMD and base metal concentrations derived from upstream and elsewhere in the system. A comprehensive water testing program approved by the Department of Industry and Investment Minerals Division has been established to monitor water quality. It is expected that this monitoring will detect significant improvements in water quality in Sawpit Creek as a result of White Rock's management of the historic AMD problem at Mt Carrington.  White Rock is expending $1.3 million on these works this year.

Follow us on Twitter

The Hatlar Group is now on www.twitter.com  - You can find and follow us by searching for the hatlargroup

Keep up to date with the exciting changes that are happening at Hatlar.

As well as our own updates we will be tweeting comments on recent environmental issues and letting you know about any interesting environmentally related events, technology and innovations

So make sure you follow us and why not recommend others to do the same

Check in regularly.... 

Green Cones - The new innovation in dealing with household food waste

Hatlar is the exclusive distributor of Green Cones in Australia/New Zealand and has several trails underway at present in jurisdictions across the region. The feedback to date is positive with all trail sites expressing their satisfaction with the ease and efficiency of operation.

For more information, please refer to the Products section of our Website, or contact Amir Siddique at the Hatlar Group.

Trade Waste Training Course

For all people involved in trade waste Hatlar offer a Certificate IV in Liquid Trade Waste Management.

This course is delivered by key staff from the Hatlar Group and is offered as 2 five-day blocks approximately 8 weeks apart. The Certificate IV is administered by Swinburne University of Technology.

Hatlar are currently aligning this course with the NWP07 requirements and will be offering a revisd course in 2009.
 

If you are interested in attending please contact us

GO SOLO GO!! GO SOLO GO!!!

It was smiles all around following the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne for 3 young Solomon Islanders who fulfilled their dream to compete at an international level in their sport. With the assistance of Hatlar the dream was realised when they stepped out onto the MCG at the opening ceremony, and then completed the gruelling event with the roar of the crowd of 200,000 people announceing the arrival as each of the Solomon Island triathletes crossed the finish line with broad smiles disguising their exhaustion. The flag of the Solomon Islands was held proudly over their heads as they finished their remarkable race on the international stage. 

Although the end of the Commonwealth story it is merely the start of the bigger story for Triathlon Solomon Islands. The first three international competitors have been wonderful ambassadors for their country in the sport of Triathlon and have paved the way for fellow athletes in the Solomons in the future.

Pictured (L-R) Ross Andrewartha, Wilfred Bosa, Stanley Ofasisili, Marcus Forau with Hatlar Group's Maria Talagi and Stuart Glen

Chemical Clean up enhances performance of Commonwealth Games Triathletes

The Solomons is the poorest country in the Pacific and is only just emerging from five years of ethnic tension with the help of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, RAMSI.

Three young Solomon Islanders now they have the opportunity to represent their country for the first time ever in the triathlon at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. The triathletes will be competing with the best and latest equipment thanks to the generosity of an Australian environmental consultancy, the Hatlar Group.

Hatlar Managing Director Stuart Glen says the company is encouraged that Australian expatriates would give of their time and money to encourage the development of young people in the Solomons. Hatlar is committed to working in the Pacific and has been involved in the cleanup of chemical and agrichemical wastes and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). In addition to this, Hatlar is committed to improving sanitation and the quality of the water supply in the Pacific and has initiated several investigative projects in this regard.

More information

Hatlar presents Trade Waste Education paper

Hatlar presented a paper on the development of Resource Material to Support the Best Practice Guidelines for Management of Trade Waste and Trade Waste Management Plans at the AWA/ WEN 2nd National Water Education Conference in Alice Springs in April.

For more information contact Hatlar

The conference runs from 18-21 April 2006 and further information and registration details can be found on the conference website

Innovation from cleaner production collaboration

Bulace Dyeing in partnership with Central Highlands Water and EPA have implemented progressive changes to reduce sodium levels and potable water demand. What has been learned is now to be shared with anyone in the industry who wants to move to a “green” approach to dyeing.

In consultation with Central Highlands Water, Bulace developed a more comprehensive understanding of the business’ environmental footprint, including the potential to affect the Central Highlands Water "SmartCycle®" water reuse project. 

The innovation that has been introduced is aimed at reducing the impact Bulace has on the environment. The changes are very simple, but have been demonstrated to be very effective.

For more information on how this was achieved, please contact Hatlar.